New process likely to be popular but there is room for improvement

At least 21,000 more companies failed in March compared with the year before 

A payout passed leaves a scar on a company’s record that can never be erased 

Research by accountancy network reveals 7 in 10 respondents have lost half their revenue

Your chance to grill FT experts on the government’s rescue measures for small businesses

Grassroots manufacturers overcome lack of machinery, materials and supply chain experience

English companies with shared offices excluded from coronavirus rescue package

Threat of redundancies and business failures means higher earners need help with their finances

In 2008, it was decided an over-leveraged banking system must be bailed in by the private sector. Post lock-down the exact opposite is true.

Government-backed scheme designed to help smaller UK firms launches on Monday

Government to provide £617m to plug gaps in rescue package based on business rates system

Requests from small businesses estimated at £3.3bn as banks open for coronavirus support

GFSL said liquidated company’s services were ‘unacceptable’

Printing group’s polymer banknotes may be hard to rip, but its share price is not

Shares drop to record low as chief admits company is ‘overstretched’

Postal group says strike ballot had ‘irregularities’ making it ‘null and void’

Advanced equipment can detect problems 75 days before they occur

Isle of Man-based Dbay Advisors to charge 18% interest on emergency finance if approved

Debbie White to step down as group strengthens leadership of its three divisions

UK logistics group at risk of collapse without new cash to support its operations

Postal services group says unit could slump to loss next year with revamp ‘behind schedule’

Only when Royal Mail turns round its UK business will it get a more cheering message across

UK group points to ‘material uncertainty’ if a turnround plan does not tackle debt pile

Andrew Tinkler’s TVFB plans emergency equity raising of up to £70m to cut group’s debt

Group to shrink operations in Europe, Japan, and Brazil

Lorry company’s board says lenders will only support refinancing through buyout group’s proposal

Crystal Amber’s move shows sign of confidence in struggling UK group

Dbay’s offer for haulage group wins ‘overwhelming’ majority of votes

Former CEO and fifth-largest shareholder severs ties with group that sacked him

The consultancies most recommended by clients and peers, rated by sector and specialism. Plus: millennial professionals’ search for meaning; weighing consultants’ worth; the conflict of interest debate; a call for courage on diversity; HS2 blurs consultancy lines; Brexit and fees

Private equity epiphany; Royal Mail; CEO succession at HSBC

Neobank’s funding round sets new valuation parameters; De La Rue battles to last a decade

Internet orders and cargo plane demand could help DHL-owner meet €5bn operating profit goal

Sloppy housekeeping, soaring debt and spendthrift ways were easier to ignore in a stronger market

Staff vote in favour of a walkout but union says they can help deliver supplies to elderly

President’s travel ban will not calm markets or address the threat facing America

Here is the role that I intend to play in bringing the global pandemic to an end

My household’s Corona Protocol has provoked eye-rolling from my two teenage children  

The president should look to Roman history and Ireland on how to act in a crisis

There are words I use daily now that simply did not exist — even a month ago

Treasury secretary enters war against Covid-19 with handicaps, but he’s all America has got

The virus has pulled back a curtain on how fragile and financialised our economy is

Donald Trump’s ambivalence on coronavirus threatens both the US and its global power

Even before the coronavirus outbreak, many people found isolation a normal way of living

We can cope pretty well with stressful events if they are expected. Uncertainty is tougher 

The division in tackling coronavirus in the US is not based on politics but on competence  

Many see the epidemic as divine retribution for our sins

A key legacy of the self-described socialist has been to shift the Democratic party to the left

We need to get acclimatised to repetition. Many of us have not internalised the arduous road ahead

Rana Foroohar and Edward Luce talked to readers on the pandemic’s international impact